It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you're feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It's like the Greek dictum to "know thyself," or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter's Web site — "What are you doing?" — can come to seem existentially freighted. What are you doing?) Having an audience can make the self-reflection even more acute, since, as my interviewees noted, they're trying to describe their activities in a way that is not only accurate but also interesting to others: the status update as a literary form.
A Socially-Just Internet - 0 views
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A new article by David Toews (aka SL's Need Writer) asks: how can internet researchers incorporate the goals of peace and social justice? The key is focussing analysis on how newmedia social actors resist the imposition of agency by forming serious play groups.
Intimate Strangers - 0 views
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A Time magazine article from 1995 proves to be surprisingly relevant to our current look at online community. For the emergence of online communities, this might be particularly interesting.
F*** My Life - FML : Your everyday life stories. - 0 views
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People post anonymously about bad things that have happened to the and readers either agree that the situation sucked or they vote that person deserved it.
Web ushers in age of ambient intimacy - International Herald Tribune - 0 views
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What I've been saying for a long time now, comforting to see it here! -
... not to mention shadow theory, disowned subjects etc.
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Conversations emerge.
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Laura Fitton, the social-media consultant, argues that her constant status updating has made her "a happier person, a calmer person" because the process of, say, describing a horrid morning at work forces her to look at it objectively. "It drags you out of your own head," she added. In an age of awareness, perhaps the person you see most clearly is yourself.
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Of course, reminds me of this - http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/talkitout.html
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"It's just like living in a village, where it's actually hard to lie because everybody knows the truth already,"
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Where Anon differs is a network where nobody knows anything about anyone.
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Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? - 0 views
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Okay, so I got the name of the show wrong - it's Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? Probably not pertinent to the project, but you sometimes hear some interesting stuff on the show that might be (like the book I posted).
How We Decide: How the Brain Makes ... - Google Book Search - 0 views
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I heard an interview with this author pertaining to this book on NPR a couple of weeks ago, on a show called, "What Do You Know?" and the wikipedia entry on overchoice reminded me. I thought this might apply, and possibly help someone with their research.
YouTube - Shining - 0 views
Cruel Facebook hoax ends marriage - Yahoo!7 News - 0 views
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Facebook faux relationship ruins relationship. "Lulz" were had by two regular guys.
Coming of Age in Second Life: An ... - Google Book Search - 0 views
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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen.Coming of Age in Second Lifeis the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group. Coming of Age in Second Lifeshows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself.
New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Exploring a 'Deep Web' That Google Can't Grasp
Steve Smith's Eye on Digital Media - 0 views
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This looks like it will be relevant to the section on advertising if we're still doing it!
Facebook Is For Old People - 0 views
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You may have to sign into the K-State network to read this.
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